Heterosis for egg production in white leghorn Australorp crosses
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in British Poultry Science
- Vol. 18 (1), 69-77
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00071667708416330
Abstract
1. Australorp and White Leghorn pullets were compared with their Fl, F2 and F3 crossbred offspring for a range of egg production variables. 2. The substantial hybrid vigour for efficiency of food conversion, hen‐housed egg production, hen‐day egg production and total egg mass of the F1 crossbred populations was lost in the F2 and F3 crossbred populations.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Heterosis and Selection in the Domestic FowlAustralian Journal of Biological Sciences, 1966
- A comparison of White Leghorns, Australorps, and their reciprocal crossesAustralian Journal of Agricultural Research, 1961
- Single crossing between White Leghorn and AustralorpAustralian Journal of Agricultural Research, 1958